Ella, 3 Years Old

Now that Ella is 3, it seems only appropriate to update her biography. :)

• Favorite Items:   When she travels overnight, we still have to pack Mimi and her Ella pillow. Just about everything else can be left at home. Lately, she's been pretty attached to a plush Tigger animal.
• Favorite Trait: Her eyes and her smile.
• Personality: Very sweet, very funny/entertaining, always a "people watcher." Generally timid around those she doesn't know well; always needs time to warm up to them.
• A typical night's sleep: Bedtime at 8, up around 6:15  
• Favorite Places: The park, any place with animals, riding a boat, loves to be anywhere but home!
• Favorite Activities: Puzzles, playing with babies, playing Memory, playing with Erin
• Nicknames: Ellie, Ellers, Ellie-Bellie, Eleanor (her government name when she's in trouble)
• New Learning:
• I'm trying to work on getting her to write more... she does not sit down much.  Activities like coloring/scribbling or practicing writing shapes/letters are things I'd like to work on now that it's getting colder outside!
• Ella got several new books from her birthday party. She loves being read to, but this week she has started to take an interest in "reading" by herself. I've been hearing her all week sharing out loud what she sees in the pictures, or using her own imagination to make a story. It has been fun to finally be on the receiving end of story time! Erin also listens intently to the sound of Sissy "reading."